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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a breach review, you collect threat-intel notes stating that the intruders gained an initial foothold, quietly escalated privileges, and then maintained covert access for six months while periodically exfiltrating source-code repositories that match their country's strategic technology plan. Which single observation most clearly indicates the incident should be classified as an APT rather than a commodity attack?

  • Initial compromise was achieved through a publicly available exploit for an unpatched SMBv1 vulnerability.

  • Hundreds of look-alike domains were registered and used in a spear-phishing campaign against senior executives.

  • The adversary kept undetected access for months to quietly exfiltrate R&D data that aligns with a nation-state's strategic objectives.

  • The intruders deployed ransomware within hours of entry and demanded payment in cryptocurrency.

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